This list of recreation might sound dreary but to me (and many in my generation), learning first became one of my favorite avenues for the vice of procrastination - and then a passion.

The term paper can wait - I have got to read Dawson!
Quiz tomorrow? I wonder how St. Patrick would do youth ministry...?
Project due? Benjamin Zander would make a great Catholic...
Final coming up, better finish Henri de Lubac.
Spanish? (Okay, so I liked Spanish.) Me gusta!

Over the years this has evolved from vice to hobby to discipline.

I constantly keep a notebook on me to catch my thoughts, questions, and ideas. I often think of how unproductive it is to keep these matters private. Maybe they are the most foolish of ideas and thoughts, but if they could at least be a small benefit to one other then it would be worth sharing.

For the past year I have been sitting on this blog debating and praying about whether to make it public. I have come to the conclusion to suspend judgement and dive headlong into the wild of blogging and judge this tree by its fruits. (Luke 6:44) I think the saying should go: "If its worth doing, its worth doing badly the first time."

A lofty goal would be to hope that something I write would bring you closer to Christ; and I very seriously do. But if you would be entertained in the least I would count it as a gain.

This blog is a step out of the comforts of my house. Thanks for indulging me.

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
--Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring